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    Getting Started with nopCommerce
    Getting Started with nopCommerce
    Getting Started with nopCommerce
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    Getting Started with nopCommerce

    By Brandon Atkinson

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    A friendly, tutorial style book, which will help you learn your way through creating a live storefront with nopCommerce in a step-by-step manner.Getting Started with nopCommerce is for anyone who wants to sell products online using nopCommerce. If you are a non-technical person and are discouraged by the complexity of this powerful e-commerce application, then this book is for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9781782166450
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      Getting Started with nopCommerce - Brandon Atkinson

      Table of Contents

      Getting Started with nopCommerce

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Downloading and Installing nopCommerce

      Prerequisites and requirements

      Hosting providers

      Setting up a basic development environment

      Installing Internet Information Services (IIS)

      Installing SQL Server and Visual Studio

      Downloading nopCommerce

      Uploading and installing

      Web (no source)

      Source code

      Installation

      Setting up file permissions

      Summary

      2. The Public-facing Storefront

      General site layout and overview

      Category and manufacturer pages

      Product pages

      Searching for products

      Shopping cart

      Checkout and order details

      Summary

      3. The Administration Site

      How to access and overview

      Creating and managing categories

      Creating and managing manufacturers

      Creating and managing products

      Creating and managing attributes

      Summary

      4. Configuring the Store

      General store settings

      Payment methods

      Shipping

      Shipping Methods

      Shipping method restrictions

      Shipping rate computation methods

      Shipping by weight

      Fixed rate shipping

      Taxes

      Tax categories

      Tax providers

      Content management

      Topics (Pages)

      Email accounts

      Message templates

      Plugins

      Security (SSL)

      Summary

      5. Processing Orders

      Processing orders

      Viewing and editing order information

      Viewing and editing order billing information

      Viewing and editing order shipping information

      Viewing and editing ordered products

      Adding and deleting order notes

      Processing returns

      Viewing current shopping carts and wishlists

      Impersonating a customer

      Summary

      Index

      Getting Started with nopCommerce

      Getting Started with nopCommerce

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      About the Author

      Brandon Atkinson is an architect and developer for CapTech Consulting in Richmond, VA. He specializes in Microsoft technologies including ASP.NET and SharePoint, regularly contributing to the SharePoint forums on TechNet. Brandon has owned and operated several online stores over the years, and he has also helped many others with their e-commerce efforts. When he is not writing code, Brandon enjoys playing music, reading, and spending time with his wife.

      This book is dedicated to my dad, Mike Atkinson. I'm sure he would be proud to see how far I've come and I miss him every day.

      I thank my wife, Jennie Cook, who has always supported me in everything I do and has never told me any idea was too crazy to try; I love you.

      Thanks to my brother, Brian Atkinson, who was my Sherpa guide for writing a book.

      And thanks to my mom, Brenda Michaels, who taught me to have a firm hand shake, be polite, look people in the eye, and always hold doors for strangers. These skills have proven more valuable in my career than any bit of technical knowledge I can fit into my head.

      About the Reviewers

      Nicholas Cipollina is a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in .NET development and iOS development. He has over 12 years of software development experience including developing large-scale n-tier web applications and iOS mobile applications. Nicholas received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. He currently lives in Mechanicsville, VA, with his beautiful wife, Dawn, and his two little girls, Isabella and Hannah.

      Jennie Cook received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Merchandising from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004. She is a business consultant specializing in merchandising and marketing of e-commerce retail businesses and enjoys working with start-up businesses in particular.

      With over 10 years of experience, Jennie amassed a wealth of knowledge that she now shares with her students as an adjunct professor in the Fashion Merchandising department at her alma mater.

      Currently, Jennie is working on her own online venture using nopCommcerce. Revelry Row, a website specializing in women's jewelry and accessories, was launched in 2012.

      Chris Stout is a manager at CapTech Consulting, and has spent over 15 years working on a variety of web-related technologies. He is currently working in mobile security with a financial services client, and has interest in Windows Phone development and cloud computing. When not at work, Chris enjoys woodworking, scuba diving, and hanging with his wife and daughter.

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      Preface

      You're reading this book because you've decided to open an online store and you've chosen nopCommerce as your e-commerce engine. Congratulations! Opening an e-commerce storefront is an exciting adventure and nopCommerce is a top-shelf product that will serve you well. nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce engine built with Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC framework and which uses Microsoft's SQL Server database. This engine is a complete solution that includes everything you need.

      nopCommerce consists of two major areas:

      Public-facing storefront: This is where customers will browse your site, look at products, and place orders. It consists of product, category, and topic pages, as well as the shopping cart and checkout pages.

      Administration site: This is where you will manage all aspects of your storefront. This includes creating categories, adding/managing products, and creating/editing topic pages. You will also manage shipping options, tax settings, payment providers, and so on.

      There are other areas in nopCommerce, including a blog and forums. However, these areas are outside the scope of this book, but you should be aware there is more to nopCommerce than just the e-commerce engine.

      Note

      Real world

      In most installations, you may not use the built-in blog and forums provided. There are many products on the market that are solely built for these purposes, such as WordPress for blogging. Sometimes, it makes sense to use nopCommerce solely as your e-commerce engine and use other products for blogging and forums.

      nopCommerce is licensed under the nopCommerce Public License v3. This license is the GPLv3 license with the additional requirement of having Powered by nopCommerce text on the bottom of each page. The GPLv3 license states that the software is free to use, change, share, and also that you are free to share your code changes with other users. Visit the GNU website (http://www.gnu.org/) for detailed information on the GPLv3 license.

      The text requirement under the nopCommerce Public

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